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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7

54 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 54 pages OCR'd
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k b at * ; . k ae [ the missing men RA es ", i Security agents also OT t the ‘possibility ‘that ‘two For \eign Office aides may have been lured | to Paris and jdidnaped, : a 7, The ‘theory that the men mightf 7°" a j be trying to escape to Russia has - Tee not ‘been discarded, but speculation Bo was growing that they are being) England, to St. Malo, France, b. 2 0 held somewhere: in “steamship on round-trip tickets May: France against their will.| 25 with the announced intention af: ‘ b However, |, the motive returning : to’, England | three gays: 3 eFIn € disappearance: jater. °° - io a! y - —™forciblé or ygluntary— « @ Unaccountably’ "left their guit-’ DELETED CY c 2 Or mt CB oh - of Donald Di“ MagLean,| cases aboard the ship on their ar. 1978 . 38, head of the American | rival in France next: morning, but. gy LETTE. sult 32. * eter are "hy oT - department -of the Brit-f took their briefcases with them. _. "Who's the ish Foreign ‘Office, and} # ‘Taxied to Rennes and boarded ER fo 4 ReuESE soo 3d Man? Guy" Burgess, 40, a Far! a train for Paris. i Pi Eastern expert formerly). There the trail vanished except, | assigned to the . Washington: Em-| for three telegrams received by bbassy, remained a mystery. ‘ ‘i utheir families on Tharecey. we es, i ne o ree telegrams ostens originals .o e. telegram: we tbly sent by the two missing diplo- |. : Sound” “to be in the handwriting : of | } &D - 4 / Hp. se a: f? ee rmats to their families in England|.g third man. ~ noe bED tea, seame from Rome, a foreign office”. The theory the two men had been. NOT RECOR bee cspokesman said today. . lured to Paris and ‘were being. held| . 136 1951 ge { ‘The. Rome’ telegram, sent in the prisoner: was, based | on. these - fac: OCT 19 13951. me, _ yMame of Mr. Burgess, apologized] tors: . ta : ; : efor his “silence” and. said he was}.- # They’ "origin ally “had ‘shown : “embarking ‘on a‘long Mediterra-4 every intention of being away only a ysean holiday.” .| three days. They drove to ' The original of the telegram, re-'|- ampton from London in a car hired - Page covered in Rome, was not in Bur-.).py Burgess for three days, and told jess handwriting, the foreign. off, z garage there they. jrould be back jee spokesman sald. y 2B.e 4 eg "At the same time, a highly-placedj (' « ‘Their’ decision” to travel to'st,{ Times-Herald —_ . + French official ruled that two. tele-j baat on the northern Brittany coast , ; a . grams sent from Paris in the name ‘jndicatea that their original ° desti- | Wash ip 5 t a a, + of the other missing dipiomat was. nation was not'Paris,» but" some? aan. 0 . fre _ not written by an Anglo-Saxon. > +/ other ‘part of France.- It. was be- “ond One telegram sent in: Mr. Mae. | ieved ‘they might shave received HE ges ~ oo i ‘Lean’s’ name. informed his “Amer- me mses after arriving at St. Wash! News roe : dean-born wife that he “had to leave : induced thera to go. me i unexpectedly,” The- other, to his ; 14 bers ; oo, ter, said that he “wag ‘quite all Bos 4 g ‘right’. ‘and. told. her.’ Dot: to. worry, an . ; Fe Sne him? oe": ™ * stehsets 1000 *, 900 apenis ci: Juding members ot the Americad ed alu Wash, ‘star * aaa N.¥. Mirror ww z | . or oN J “ “oy ., wo Co . ; . rs ot Le ele S68 B an ese ee . a ern SUrope oe forthe “where: “poe _ , N. ¥. Compass 6 0 oo) a wo Re hey already have found uke Sk ey already auc 3 * oe 7 ae 4. a a — Pa . | BU 24 GBP i pare, JUN 9’ 1951
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